Your secret PIN may not be so secret

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Physics book or two?

"An RFID device needs a source of power."
No, they are mostly passive. Like the one in my credit card.

"My debit card is just a uniformly flat piece of plastic. It may have an embeded bar code thats read by a special laser scanner when tapped in the hot spot or the magnetic strip made be read from a distance."
No, it can't be.

"Could it be read by someone in the crowed with a portable laser scanner?"
No no no no. Not even by Superman.

"This techie stuff gets scarier and scarier. ."
Of course, if you don't understand how it really works

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